Poverty Is A Thorough Instructress

Things We Do Not Expect, Happen More Frequently Than We Wish.

No Guest Is So Welcome In A Friend's House That He Will Not Become A Nuisance After Three Days.

Who Wishes To Give Himself An Abundance Of Business Let Him Equip These Two Things, A Ship And A Woman. For No Two Things Involve More Business, If You Have Begun To Fit Them Out. Nor Are These Two Things Ever Sufficiently Adorned, Nor Is Any Excess Of Adornment Enough For Them.

A Word To The Wise Is Sufficient

The Gods Give That Man Some Profit To Whom They Are Propitious. [lat., Cui Homini Dii Propitii Sunt Aliquid Objiciunt Lucri.]